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Quote of the week

Posted Nov 3, 2011 18:24 UTC (Thu) by finsko (subscriber, #10117)
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/*
* We had N bottles of beer on the wall, we drank one, but now
* there's not N-1 bottles of beer left on the wall...
*/

I think this is a brilliant intuitive explanation of an unexpected
counter mismatch,,,

sf

PS You are not expected to understand this


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Quote of the week

Posted Nov 10, 2011 15:29 UTC (Thu) by pbardet (guest, #22762) [Link]

I suppose they have 1.5L bottles of strong ale to see 2N-2 bottles after drinking only 1 bottle. ;-)

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